Anxiety Poem by Juwan David

I write because you won't listen!

Because you won't listen

To my words,

To my hurts,

To my fears.


Your eyes are just too blind

- to see my tears

Your heart has forgotten

- how to care

And your ears are deaf

To the rumbles of the battles I fight within.


To my come-plain;  

the complain I have about this compilations

That sets my soul free

Free like a bat at night,


The mescaline, psilocyline, khat, kratum, and hallucinogens.


The ones that exalts my spirit, high;

High upon the world

And those that drives me back to nursery

When we sang the song

"I bow my belly in//I bow my belly out"


But if I should jump!

Jump down this cliff in a bid to end my suffering.


You will be the first, to paint your portrait

Out of my down fall

Because you my friend

Are my enemy.


But I won't jump.

I will just walk away

Away from you and everything that seems like you!


Anxiety.